A Simple Scale by David Llewellyn

A Simple Scale by David Llewellyn

A piece of music starts a story which will range across Soviet Russia, McCarthyite Hollywood and post-9/11 New York, as the mystery of the lives of two gay composers is uncovered. Who wrote the music? How did the two composers' lives come to cross? What pressures caused their actions? What are the consequences for those around them? In the immediate aftermath of 9/11, a man arrives in New York to claim that the theme tune of a popular tv series, said to be written by composer Sol Conrad, in fact belongs his grandfather Sergey, an eminent Russian composer who was sent to the gulag by Stalin, and from whom Sol stole the score. Conrad's young PA Natalie is determined to defend her elderly employer, but as she digs deeper she discovers worlds of which she barely knew - Russian labour camps, McCarthyism, repressive governments, and the plight of homosexuals in the USA and USR during the twentieth century. Natalie, Sol and Serge each tell their stories, ranging across continents and decades. A Simple Scale moves forward through their narratives of love, death, deceit, the CIA, the NKVD, atomic bombs, classical music and Hollywood. In a dramatic conclusion their pasts and presents catch up with them, as the secrecy, manipulation and betrayal that were the centre of Sol and Sergey's lives inform a few weeks of 2001, when history is about to repeat itself. Rich in detail and atmosphere, David Llewellyn explores the points at which the personal and the political meet. Throughout, his depiction of 30s Leningrad, 50s California and post-9/11 New York is only too believable.

David Llewellynis a Welsh novelist and script writer. His novels include Eleven; Trace Memory, a spin-off from the BBC drama series Torchwood; andEverything Is Sinister. He has also written two novels for the Doctor Who New Series Adventures The Taking of Chelsea 426, featuring the Tenth Doctor, and Night of the Humans, featuring the Eleventh Doctor and Amy Pond. In addition to writing novels, Llewellyn wrote the Bernice Summerfield audio play Paradise Frost and the Dark Shadows audio drama The Last Stop for Big Finish Productions.

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ISBN 13	9781781724705
ISBN 10	1781724709
Title	A Simple Scale
Author	David Llewellyn
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Poetry Wales Press
Year published	2018-08-20
Number of pages	248
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